Understanding the spread of COVID‐19 misinformation on social media: The effects of topics and a political leader's nudge

X Wang, M Zhang, W Fan… - Journal of the Association …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The spread of misinformation on social media has become a major societal issue during
recent years. In this work, we used the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic as a case study to …

Network amplification of politicized information and misinformation about COVID-19 by conservative media and partisan influencers on Twitter

Y Zhang, F Chen, J Lukito - Political Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Social media amplification is both a mechanism to attract public attention and a process of
information diffusion shaped by the online social network structure. This study focuses on …

Being a female sports journalist on Twitter: Online harassment, sexualization, and hegemony

Y Demir, B Ayhan - International Journal of Sport …, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
Online harassment toward women in social networks can occur in many forms such as
contempt, profanity, insult, sexual desire, pruriency, physical threat, misogyny, and so on …

Tackling disinformation and infodemics demands media policy changes

A Bechmann - Digital journalism, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Disinformation and infodemics have been central for the media policy agenda in most
countries and in particular in Europe. Yet, the European Commission has had a soft law …

Hashtags for gatekeeping of information on social media

D Potnis, I Tahamtan - Journal of the Association for …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since the inception of gatekeeping research in the 1940s, most studies on gatekeeping
have been human‐centric, treating and studying individuals as gatekeepers, who perform …

[HTML][HTML] The mutual influence of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Twitter users during COVID-19: network agenda-setting analysis

I Tahamtan, D Potnis, E Mohammadi, V Singh… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Little is known about the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in
communicating with the public on social media during a global health emergency. More …

Social media influencers talk about politics: Investigating the role of source factors and PSR in Gen-Z followers' perceived information quality, receptivity and sharing …

Z Cheng, J Chen, RX Peng… - Journal of Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Afforded by the unprecedented interactivity of social media, social media influencers (SMI)
can build strong and trusting relationships with their followers. Such connections carry great …

The dynamics of event-based political influencers on Twitter: A longitudinal analysis of influential accounts during Chinese political events

F Liang, S Lu - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The study examines the dynamics and multiplicity of political influencers on Twitter by
focusing on the discussion of six China-related political events between 2017 and 2020. We …

United in criticism: The discursive politics and coalitions of Australian energy debates on social media

AM Arranz, HH Askland, Y Box, I Scurr - Energy Research & Social Science, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper applies social network analysis (SNA) and natural language processing (NLP)
tools within a traditional discourse analysis framework to better understand the polarisation …

[HTML][HTML] Role of twitter user profile features in retweet prediction for big data streams

S Sharma, V Gupta - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2022 - Springer
To study the various factors influencing the process of information sharing on Twitter is a
very active research area. This paper aims to explore the impact of numerical features …